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* The Last Starfighter ( 1984 ) ( scenes deleted from film but included as DVD extra )
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In 1982, there was Halloween III: Season of the Witch, The Last Starfighter in 1984 as Grig, Alex Rogan's copilot, navigator, and sidekick, The Whoopee Boys in 1986 as a conman, John Huston's The Dead in 1987, in RoboCop, and its sequel RoboCop 2.
The rights to most of the films noted here have been retained by their original distributors ( as noted with an * asterisk ), while others are now in the hands of Warner Bros. ( Including all of the Lorimar film productions released by United Artists, 20th Century Fox, almost all of the Lorimar film productions released by Paramount, and the Lorimar film productions released by Warner Bros .) The television rights to The Last Starfighter are owned by Warner, while Universal holds theatrical and home video rights.
* The film The Last Starfighter depended heavily on high polygon count ( for the time ) models with complex lighting effects, the rendering of which was made possible by the use of the X-MP.
The Last Starfighter, in addition to Disney's Tron, has the distinction of being one of cinema's earliest films to use extensive computer-generated imagery ( CGI ) to depict its many starships, environments and battle scenes.
The Last Starfighter is one of the earliest films to make extensive use of computer graphics for its special effects.
The Last Starfighter was a financial success, earning over $ 28 million on an estimated budget of $ 15 million.
Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half out of four stars, stating that while the actors were good, The Last Starfighter was " not a terrifically original movie ," but was nonetheless " well-made ".
In 1984, FASA, a noted sci-fi tabletop game maker, created a gaming system for The Last Starfighter.
A real The Last Starfighter arcade game by Atari, Inc. is promised in the end credits, but was never released.
Home versions of the game for the Atari 2600 and Atari 8-bit home computers were also developed, but never commercially released under the Last Starfighter name.
A prototype exists for the Atari 2600 Last Starfighter game, which was in actuality a game already in development by Atari under the name Universe.
In 1990, an NES game titled " The Last Starfighter " was released, but it was actually a conversion of Uridium for Commodore 64, with modified sprites, title screen and soundtrack.
In February 2008, production company GPA Entertainment added " Starfighter-The sequel to the classic motion picture Last Starfighter " to its list of projects and two months later the project was reported to be " stuck in the pre-production phase ".
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By the mid-1980s, her record sales were still relatively strong, with " Save the Last Dance for Me ", " Downtown ", " Tennessee Homesick Blues " ( all 1984 ); " Real Love " ( another duet with Kenny Rogers ), " Don't Call It Love " ( both 1985 ); and " Think About Love " ( 1986 ) all reaching the country-singles Top 10.
Mecha have been featured in video games since the 1980s, particularly in vehicular combat and shooter games, including Sesame Japan's side-scrolling shooter game Vastar in 1983, various Gundam games such as the first-person shooters Mobile Suit Gundam: Last Shooting in 1984 and Z-Gundam: Hot Scramble in 1986, the run and gun shooters Hover Attack in 1984 and Thexder in 1985, and Arsys Software's 3D role-playing shooters WiBArm in 1986 and Star Cruiser in 1988.
Mainka-Jellinghaus worked with Herzog on twenty films, from Signs of Life and Last Words ( both from 1968 ) to Where the Green Ants Dream ( 1984 ).
* Oscar winners: Ordinary People ( 1980 ), Chariots of Fire ( 1981 ), Gandhi ( 1982 ), Terms of Endearment ( 1983 ), Amadeus ( 1984 ), Out of Africa ( 1985 ), Platoon ( 1986 ), The Last Emperor ( 1987 ), Rain Man ( 1988 ), Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989 )
Ford reprised the role for the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ( 1984 ) and the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ( 1989 ).
The film's critical and popular success led to three additional films, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ( 1984 ), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ( 1989 ), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( 2008 ), a television series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles ( 1992 – 1996 ), and 15 video games as of 2009.
" The pre-empted shows were parodies of current TV shows ( e. g. The A-Team Makes One Cup of Coffee Last Five Hours, " Hanging Out " or " Malls ", 1984 ), movies ( e. g. Top Gun Gets Put on Latrine-Cleaning Duty, " Discipline ", 1986 ), or other pop culture icons ( e. g. Boy George Without Make-up, " Halloween ", 1984 ), and were often relevant to the theme of the current episode ( e. g. the pre-empted show for " Safety " ( 1981 ) was Hit and Run on Sesame Street ).
" The Abolition of Work and Other Essays ," published by Loompanics in 1986, included, along with the title essay, some of his short Last International texts, and some essays and reviews reprinted from his column in " San Francisco's Appeal to Reason ," a leftist and counter-cultural tabloid published from 1980 to 1984.
A live production of Last of the Summer Wine, known informally as the " summer season ", was produced in Bournemouth in 1984.
Jarman's first films were experimental super 8 mm shorts, a form he never entirely abandoned, and later developed further in his films Imagining October ( 1984 ), The Angelic Conversation ( 1985 ), The Last of England ( 1987 ) and The Garden ( 1990 ) as a parallel to his narrative work.
From their Nettwerk debut EP Remission in 1984 to their 1992 album Last Rights, Skinny Puppy developed into an influential band with a dedicated cult following, fusing elements of ambient, noise, new wave, electro, and rock music and making innovative use of sampling.
A collection of b-sides and unreleased tracks recorded between 1984 and 1993, called Retro Active, was released in October 1993, preceded by the success of " Two Steps Behind " ( from the Arnold Schwarzenegger film Last Action Hero ).
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